Metaphysics

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Studies the problems of first philosophy: the concepts of existence, essence, object, property, and event; universals and particulars; the nature of change, possibility, causation, space, and time. Discusses traditional philosophical issues such as free will, the mind/body problem, personal identity, and the existence of abstract entities (e.g., numbers), as well as views of realism, idealism, materialism, and relativism.